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BIO Web Conf.
Volume 22, 2020
International Conference “Longevity Interventions 2020” (ICLI 2020)
Article Number 02028
Number of page(s) 5
Section Actual Problems of Medicine
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20202202028
Published online 06 July 2020

© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020

Licence Creative CommonsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

1 Introduction

Under the modern medical development conditions, the need for specialists performing diagnostics and ensuring the comfort and safety of patients during testing has considerably increased [1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 19]. It is necessary to perform optimization and methodical regulation of the types and quantities of multifunctional activities of these professionals [5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 26]. The scientific studies analyzing the impact of risk factors and proper operating conditions on the health, quality and efficiency of professional activities of nurses are insufficient [6, 8, 22].

2 Materials and Methods

A comprehensive medical, sociological, hygienic, clinical, statistical and organizational research with the dynamic analysis (2010-2017) has been conducted in healthcare institutions. The operating specifics of nurses was studied based on the time observations (n=45), medical expert assessment (n=108) and subjective assessment (n=293) professional activities, health effects and the development of the emotional burnout syndrome. We analyzed the results of medical tests to identify diseases and symptoms in nurses performing diagnostic testing [9, 24].

3 Results and Discussions

Professional activities of nurses have their specifics, including: skills of operation using the technically sophisticated diagnostic equipment, knowledge of the diagnostic testing methodology and evaluation of the test results. It has been established that in the structure of time spent on priority activities of nurses in the process of diagnostic testing the highest percentage of total productive time (94.0±0.5%; 440.4±9.0 min.) fell at the instrumental testing (54.3±10.0%; 253.9±45.6 min.), preparation of the workplace, diagnostic equipment, performance of preventive measures, regulation of the priority of patients (12.3±2.4%; and 57.5±11.0 min.), and work with documents (19.8±8.8%; 93.0±41.0 min.), etc.

Insufficient number of nurses with low percent of specialists experienced in various kinds of diagnostic tests (χ2=9.5; p=0.003) was marked among the adverse organizational factors. Insufficient number of nurses (52.4%) along with the increased need for functional diagnostic tests leads to production overload, reduces the work motivation and quality of work performed. The intensification of work has an impact on the development of the pronounced fatigue in nurses (OR 3.2 (95% DI: 1.4-7.0); p=0.003) with the occurrence of pain in the lumbar spine (OR 2.3 (95% DI: 1.04-5.2); p=0.04) and cervical spine (OR 3.2 (95% DI: 1.3-7.6); p=0.02).

When assessing the severity of the labor process, the types of physical activities of nurses during the instrumental tests (Table 1) were identified. It was found that the use of non- ergonomic furniture increases the physical load on nurses resulting in their reduced physical functioning (frequent movements, leaning over, local load involving the hand and finger muscles) [18, 20].

This determined the need for reorganization and optimization of the nurse workplace ergonomics .

When assessing the health indicators, a high percentage of nurses with chronic diseases (66.7 %) and disease development risk factors (10.0 %) was identified. According to medical examinations, the most common (per 100 surveyed) were the diseases of the eye and its appendages, cardio-circulatory system, urogenital system and others (Figure 1).

According to medical and sociological studies, the pronounced signs of changes in mental status (anxiety, restlessness, nervousness, uncertainty) were noted. The assessment of subjective life quality indicators in dynamics for the last five years in nurses revealed the deterioration of general health indicators (17.7 per 100 respondents); appearance of the fatigue (13.9 per 100 respondents); periodic pain manifestations in certain parts of the body (10.5 per 100 respondents) and reduced physical activity (10.6 per 100 respondents). Influence of of the specific professional activity on the psychological state with the increased risk of development of psychological disorders was revealed (OR 3.3 (95% DI: 1.9-5.5); p<0.0001).

The hygienic assessment of working conditions showed that the professional activities of nurses were accompanied by intellectual and emotional loads. To estimate the prevalence and severity of the burnout of nurses we used the questionnaire “Professional Burnout (MBI: Maslach Burnout Inventory)”. The development of the burnout components was significantly affected by the presence of emotional overload, frequent stressful situations and poor organization of the operating process due to uneven distribution of the labor load [9, 10, 21, 23, 25]. The adverse production factors, emotional stress, the impact of health indicators on the severity of the burnout components were identified among the nurses, such as high levels of emotional exhaustion (44.3 per 100 surveyed; p=0.002), depersonalization (41.9 per 100 surveyed; p=0.02) and the low level of reduction of personal achievement (23.9 per 100 surveyed; p=0.04).

In the absence of the modern integrated assessment methods of specific activities of nurses in the diagnostic testing of patients, the levels and the algorithm of standard, systematic and organizational management of their working process have been developed. The presented model of the process approach and the algorithm of the organizational activities of nurses in the diagnostic testing stages of patients with assessment of priority activities that affected the quality of diagnostics and optimization of the working conditions, were presented. The criteria for integrated assessment the quality and effectiveness of multi-component specific activities (IIQE) of nurses when conducting the diagnostic testing of patients, were developed and substantiated (formula 1).IIQE=Mlt+Mlla+Mlt+Mqw+Mmald$${\rm{IIQE = }}{{\rm{M}}_{{\rm{lt}}}} + {{\rm{M}}_{{\rm{lla}}}} + {{\rm{M}}_{{\rm{lt}}}} + {{\rm{M}}_{{\rm{qw}}}} + {{\rm{M}}_{{\rm{mald}}}}$$(1)

The proposed method is based on the criterial evaluation (in points) of their work by four modules:

Mlt – the competence level (basic education, availability of the specialist’s certificate, information on qualification, work experience, participation in conferences and public and professional activities);

Mlla – the level of working activity (the volume and types of work performed);

Mqw – the quality of work performed (the presence of complaints from patients and defects in conducting the diagnostic tests);

Mmald - medical activity related to the preservation of their own health and labor discipline.

Table 1.

Indicators of heavy working process of nurses conducting diagnostic testing of patients

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Health survey of the prevalence of diseases in the nurses (per 100 surveyed)

4 Conclusions

It has been proven that the production factors had an impact on increased fatigue, expressed in the manifestation of clinical disorders and mental and emotional stress, which contributed to the manifestation of burnout in nurses performing diagnostic testing of patients. The revealed principles allowed justifying the need for the development of the model of medical and organizational interaction and cooperation of nurses and doctors engaged in the provision of patient-oriented, high quality and safe diagnostic aid.

5 Recommendations

It is reasonable to use the developed method of integral evaluation of the performance quality and efficiency and the model of the process approach to the organizational and diagnostic activities of nurses, presented in the methodological recommendations in the practical medicine when conducting the diagnostic testing of patients.

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Table 1.

Indicators of heavy working process of nurses conducting diagnostic testing of patients

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Health survey of the prevalence of diseases in the nurses (per 100 surveyed)
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